Inappropriate Iconography

So, media figures and trendy people like wearing Che Guevara shirts and other communist iconography. I think it is generally in poor taste, plus you may run into people who have first hand experience with their handiwork. Like Cameron Diaz carrying a handbag with a quote from Mao in Peru. They don't like Maoists there.

While she explored the Inca city of Machu Picchu high in Peru's Andes, Diaz wore over her shoulder an olive green messenger bag emblazoned with a red star and the words 'Serve the People' printed in Chinese on the flap, perhaps Chinese Communist leader Mao's most famous political slogan.

While the bags are marketed as trendy fashion accessories in some world capitals, the phrase has particular resonance in Peru.

The Maoist Shining Path insurgency took Peru to the edge of chaos in the 1980s and early 1990s with a campaign of massacres, assassinations and bombings.

Nearly 70,000 people were killed during the insurgency.

Sort of like wearing a shirt with a picture of a Klan hood into an African-American neighborhood.

If you wear or display a symbol, make sure you know what it represents.